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...we're seeing less and less of Automattic staff in the Wordpress.com forums? Or Donncha or Matt on the Wordpress Multiuser support forums? It's rather frustrating. Usually when we see a staff member, it's because I've emailed them to ask for assistance. Must be nice to sit back and let the volunteers handle the issues and folks complaining. Or the extra coding and hacks over on WPMu. Gotta admit that I'm getting rather tired of all of it currently. I've made the suggestion a couple of times over the last few months that they at least publicly thank those who help out. Seen anything? Nope. Ditto on hiring a weekend support member. Trent disappeared fairly quickly from the wp.com support forums. Anyone else notice that? I get more thanks from the 80 year old homeless guy I hand a cup of coffee to every Saturday morning. *sigh*

Check out the new Dashboard Menu we have over at daria.be. Wish the picture had come out crisper though. Instructions are here if you want to include it within your own WordPress multiuser setup.

Mohammed Suleiman gives us the WordPress MultiUser Avatar Plugin. I'm working on getting this to work on daria.be asap.

Always want a tag cloud for your wordpress.com blog? Engtech gives us a Tag Cloud Generator for your wp.com blog. Runs on Windows, Mac or Linux. It'll give you output that you can copy and paste into a text widget or a Page within your blog. Be sure to read all of the documentation as Engtech goes out of his way to answer any questions that you may have. There's also a list of advanced options for you to try.

And if you're using regular WordPress, just grab one of the many tag cloud generators that are available.

Get your tickets now. :) Per Matt WordCamp 2007 will be on 7/21 and 7/22 in San Francisco. No information on places or events yet though. Regards, -drmike edit: I wish we had some details. I'm sitting here looking at hotels and planes and the like but we don't even know what part of the city it's going to be in.

I've gotten a lot done during the last few days over at daria.be, my own WordPress Multiuser installation. Here's some highlights:

• Updated the blogging software to a more recent version as well as the support forum software.
• Worked out the bugs with the stat program and made sure everybody was set up for it.
• Upgraded a number of the plugins like Akismet. I still have to do the individual forums for each blog though.
• Fixed the issue with offsitte posting clients like Blogdesk not working.
• Worked out custom header images for a number of themes like Benevolence and Sapphire. I hope to get to more of them soon.
• Added some themes like Cutline and Greenery.
• Added in an option to display a banner to one.org.
• And worked out a method to host domains for individual blogs.

Its been a busy week. Feel free to check out daria.be today. :)

Greets:

Per a request over at daria.be, I whipped up a quick WordPress plugin and am making it available for download. It places the one.org banner in the upper right of your blog and provides a link to their site. All you have to do is drop the oneorg.php file into your /wp-content/plugins/ subdirectory and activate the plugin within your Dashboard. It also work on the WordPress Multiuser platform if you make plugins optional for your end users.

Hope this helps,

-drmike

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For the longest time, I've had issues with trying to optimize the huge MySQL datatables that exist over at daria.be. With over 6,000 tables, pulling up the database in something like phpMyAdmin wasn't working too well. Took about 20 minutes just to load it up.

My host found a script on line that goes though table by table and optimizes it if needbe. It runs through all of the databases accessable by the MySQL user so it whould work on multidatabase installs of WPMu as well.

The code for the most part comes from here with some modifications made by myself to allow for the WPMu system. Instructions are included within the php file.

Download it from here. Should work on non-WPMu setups as well. Anything with large numbers of MySQL data tables.

Just a quick mention that WP-ShortStat got an upgrade a few days ago. I just noticed it.

New features copied from the site:

new database format, about half the size of the old format
added blogger.com to detected search engines
fix for broken referer
added debug version which shows all errors
some internal fixes (uninitialized variables, ...)
disabled old country detection code

There's also a MySQL script for reducing the size of the tables for it. That will be a big help for me over at daria.be. The script doesn't work for me though. I'll have to fiddle with it.